August 19, 2015: Sedalia, MO
Senior Day at State Fair Mathewson Building, Sponsored by the Area Agencies on Aging and Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services: Several activities are planned this day in the Mathewson Exhibition Center. Please see the flyer attached for activities and times.
Senior Appreciation Day, Sponsored by Sedalia Democrat: Each adult and senior presenting a special Sedalia Democrat front-page fair banner will receive $2 off their gate admission, valid today only.
August 17-19, 2015: “Set Sail for the Future”
Location: The Lodge of Four Seasons, Lake Ozark, MO
Step aboard a conference voyage that focuses on the opportunities and challenges facing Missouri’s senior population. Workshops on aging strong, combating burnout and caregiver stresses, building health and well-being, innovative ideas and achievement, peer mentoring, and the future of senior services are a few of the ports of call. Exhibit Hall opportunities will display services, products, and information with daily drawings for prizes. There will also be special presentations by respected businesses and senior service leaders.
Please see the brochure attached or visit the Missouri Association of Area Agencies on Aging’s announcement web page here.
October 14-16, 2015: Oktoberfest 2015
Location: Hilton Branson Convention Center, Branson, MO
This conference will assist the attendee in acquiring knowledge and skills to better care for the elderly. Expert speakers will get you recharged while providing the latest information on hot topics in long-term care.
Please see the brochure attached or visit the Missouri League for Nursing’s conference web page here.
September 2-4, 2015: Cheryl Parsons, RN, LNHA – presenter
Location: MANHA Training Facility, Jefferson City, MO
Individuals who attend this training will meet the 24 hours of training required to fill out and sign ALF Assessment forms. Attendees will understand the process of aging, be able to assess those problems/issues and complete the planning and documentation required by SB 616 regarding the training needs for the Assisted Living Assessor.
Please see the brochure or visit the Missouri Association of Nursing Home Administrators’ Facebook events page.
July 20-22, 2015: MALA’s ALF Resident Assessment Training
Location: Best Western Capital Inn, Jefferson City, MO
Anyone who wants training on issues relating to the elderly, aging, certain people with mental illness, and community-based assessments can attend this training.
Please see the brochure and registration information on the Missouri Assisted Living Association’s website.
August 23-26, 2015: “The Changing Faces of Long Term Care”
Location: Branson Convention Center, Branson, MO
Each day is scheduled to offer a range of education sessions to meet the needs of the entire staff, from Certified Nurse Assistants to owners. The 2015 convention offers the opportunity for attendees to earn 18.5 continuing education hours.
For more information including the schedule, seminar descriptions, and registration, please visit the Missouri Health Care Association’s website here.
July 23, 2015: “Light ‘em Up or Let ‘em Go!”
Presenter: Christopher Ridenhour, Director of Employee Engagement and Hospitality Training
Transforming organizational cultures requires each of us to become role models for the behaviors and attitudes we expect from others. This session will be useful for anyone who recognizes they haven’t fully reached their full potential as a role model and champion for change; needs research-based tools for inspiring and motivating colleagues to higher levels of performance and cooperation; and seeks a clear road to establishing a positive and lasting leadership legacy.
Please visit www.pioneernetwork.net/Events/HotTopics for more information and to register for this webinar.
September 22, 2015: DON/Charge Nurse/CNA
September 23, 2015: DON
Location: Orlando’s Event & Conference Center, St. Louis, MO
Missouri League for Nursing invites Directors of Nursing, Charge Nurses, and Certified Nursing Assistants to attend an educational event catered to YOUR needs! This conference will be energetic and hands-on all while being in a learning environment. Useful information will be available to take back and implement in your home along with the confidence, knowledge, direction, and motivation needed to help enhance your role of caring for the elderly.
Please see the brochure here or visit Missouri League for Nursing’s website here for more details and registration information.
July 31, 2015: Teepa Snow
Location: Holiday Inn Executive Center, Columbia, MO
After watching her role-play and hands on training, you will leave with techniques and an understanding of your dementia residents that you did not have before. Return to your community with a new outlook and with resources that you can implement immediately to see results. This seminar is hosted by Martin Bros Distributing Company, Inc. and the Missouri Health Care Association and has been approved for six (6) Patient Care hours.
Please see the brochure along with discount information on the MC5 website here or you Teepa Snow’s event page for the Columbia seminar located here.
July 1, 2015: Improving Nursing Home Quality through Communication, TeamSTEPPS and Family/Resident Engagement
Presenters: TMF Quality Innovation Network Quality Improvement Organization Staff: Sandy Dailey, BS, Program Coordinator; Debi Majo, BSN, RN, Quality Improvement Consultant; and Melody Malone, PT, CPHQ, MHA, Quality Improvement Consultant
Attend this webinar, hosted by the TMF Quality Innovation Network, to learn more about the importance of communication, TeamSTEPPS strategies, and how to engage your residents and family members in their care.
Please visit the TMF website here for more information. You may also directly register for this webinar here.
Nationally-known speakers partner with Advancing Excellence to bring you subjects aligned with the 9 AE Campaign goals. This series will be a great team-based training! Sit with your staff and learn together how to make the latest topics work for you. Choose 1 or all 10! Webinars start July 1, 2015!
Please see the brochure here or visit the Advancing Excellence in Long-Term Care Collaborative website here for more information and to register.
August 2-5, 2015: Navigating the Winds of Change
Location: Hyatt Regency O’Hare, Rosemont/Chicago, Illinois
This year will be the 15th annual meeting put on by Pioneer Network and can be enjoyed by all – elders, families and other consumers, providers, owners, nurses, CNAs and direct care staff, physicians, social workers, activity staff, food service staff, maintenance staff, advocates, researchers, academicians and others interested in improving the lives of elders. There are nearly 90 sessions offering the opportunity to learn about and discuss ways to change thinking, practice, policy and research. This conference is a place where people are learning, smiling, connecting and changing.
Please visit the Pioneer Network’s Conference web page here for more information and registration details.
June 23, 2015: 2:00 p.m. CT
Dr. Al Power is the author of Dementia Beyond Disease: Enhancing Well-Being. In this webinar, Dr. Power will look at the experience of dementia through the seven domains of well-being — identity, connectedness, security, autonomy, meaning, growth, and joy — and explore how each is challenged, both by brain changes and by our attitudes and care systems, and how we can use transformational approaches to restore each domain even for people with advanced cognitive change.
Dr. Power will also talk about why many “nonpharmacological interventions” and alternative therapies don’t really work any better than pills. Participants in the webinar will learn to view dementia in a new light and will challenge many of the approaches that have been taken for granted.
To register for this FREE webinar, please visit here. You may also visit the Dementia Alliance International’s event page located here.
June 23, 2015: Speaking from Experience: The Wisdom of Elders
Presenter: Anna Ortigara, Organizational Change Consultant with PHI and Lynda Crandall, Executive Director with the Pioneer Network
The voices of people living in long-term care settings have been frequently missing from formal discussions and change efforts. Their voices help us to not only learn the extent to which person-centered practices are in place and experienced by residents, but also how important various actions and practices and environments are to them. During this webinar, participants will think about and identify methods or systems for acting on the desires of residents; identify questions that may facilitate deeper conversation and learning with residents; and reconsider the importance and depth of information collected about residents relative to meaningful living.
Please visit www.pioneernetwork.net/Events/HotTopics for more information and to register for this webinar.
September 1-3, 2015: “Be the Voice”
Location: Marriott St. Louis Grand Hotel, St. Louis, MO
LeadingAge Missouri is gearing up for a new and exciting conference this year. LeadingAge Missouri is able to offer this annual conference in large part because of the support from exhibitors, and sponsors and advertisers. LeadingAge Missouri also understands how valuable vendors are to the success of the Annual Conference. Conference attendees will have the opportunity to view the latest products, services and technologies across the variety of aging services. This annual meeting offers the supporters a chance to reconnect with current customers and opportunities to make new contacts.
Please visit LeadingAge Missouri’s 2015 Annual Conference web page here for a list of presenters, registration details, and sponsorship and advertising information.
June 19-30, 2015: Kansas City, MO
July 1-2, 2015: Springfield, MO
July 13-14, 2015: Cape Girardeau, MO
July 15-16, 2015: St. Louis, MO
July 20-21, 2015: St. Louis, MO
July 22-23, 2015: Columbia, MO
August 5-6, 2015: Blue Springs, MO
This workshop, provided by Missouri Health Care Association, LeadingAge Missouri, and Missouri League for Nursing, is for long-term care staff, including MDS coordinators, medical records personnel, therapists, home health nurses and others who currently assign and/or use ICD-9 codes. Participants will get an understanding of what ICD-10 CM is and how to appropriately assign codes in ICD-10 CM.
Please see the brochure attached or visit Missouri League for Nursing’s website here for more details and registration information.
June 4, 2015: Adams Mark Hotel Conference Center, Kansas City, MO
LeadingAge Missouri will hold a Regional Meeting in Kansas City focusing on Root Cause Analysis: Fertilizer for a Safe and Just Culture along with updates from the Section for Long-Term Care Regulation, the Division of Senior and Disability Services, and LeadingAge Missouri’s Legislative update. Following the meeting and a networking reception, a shuttle will take attendees over to Kauffmann Stadium to see the Kansas City Royals take on the Cleveland Indians.
For more information and registration details, visit LeadingAge Missouri’s KC Regional Meeting web page here.
June 2, 2015: Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, St. Louis, MO
LeadingAge Missouri will hold a Regional Meeting in St. Louis focusing on High Reliability: The Key to Quality and Value along with updates from the Section for Long-Term Care Regulation, the Division of Senior and Disability Services, and LeadingAge Missouri’s Legislative update. Following the meeting and a networking reception, attendees will head over to Busch Stadium to see the St. Louis Cardinals take on the Milwaukee Brewers.
For more information and registration details, visit LeadingAge Missouri’s STL Regional Meeting web page here.
May 18, 2015: Legal Steps in Advance Care Planning: Planning for Incapacity
Speaker: Brigid Fernandez, LCSW
This webinar will help attendees learn the tools needed to plan for incapacity, understand the Power of Attorney documents for Health Care and Finances and when to rely these documents, and also understand the different issues related to a person’s capacity.
The webinar if FREE, but registration is required. Please see the flyer attached or click here to register.
May 18-19, 2015: Aging with Developmental Disabilities Conference
Location: St. Charles Convention Center, St. Charles, MO
Keynote Speakers: Joseph H. Flaherty, MD, Assistant Director Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program, St. Louis University Division of Geriatric Medicine; Sheli Reynolds, PhD, Director, Individual Advocacy and Family Support, UMKC Institute for Human Development; and Carolyn Philpot, GNP , St. Louis University School of Medicine
Explore and understand what we need to look for to ensure the best health and wellness for people with developmental disabilities who are aging. Sessions are designed to support caregivers and professionals in enhancing the lives of people with developmental disabilities who are aging.
Please visit the Association on Aging with Developmental Disabilities’ event page here for more information.
May 26, 2015: Safety vs. Autonomy for Elders: What if Maslow was Wrong
Presenter: Theresa (Terri) A. Harvath, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
During this webinar, we will examine case studies and generate ideas and strategies to help care providers make well-reasoned decisions when the values of autonomy and safety collide.
Please visit www.pioneernetwork.net/Events/HotTopics for more information and to register for this webinar.
April 23, 2015: QI Closest to the Resident: Engaging Staff to Prevent Avoidable Hospitalizations and Use of Antipsychotic Medications
Presenter: Barbara Frank, co-founder of B&F Consulting, Warren, RI and Clare Hays, MD, Medical Director, Birmingham Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Birmingham, AL, and Medical Director of Alabama CMS Innovation Center Project to Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations among Nursing Home Residents, an AQAF initiative
This webinar provides the how-to for a simple, potent process of moving QI out of the conference room to the staff closest to the residents. During the webinar, speakers apply QI closest to the resident to preventing avoidable hospitalizations and use of antipsychotic medications for residents living with dementia but the practice can be used for any quality improvement effort.
Please visit www.pioneernetwork.net/Events/HotTopics for more information and to register for this webinar.
April 17, 2015: Alarms: The New Deficient Practice? Eliminating and Preventing Falls by Engaging in Life
Guest: Carmen Bowman, co-author of new book with same title published by Action Pact
Special Guest Host: Glenn Blacklock, LNHA, Action Pact Consultant
Alarms – an idea whose time has come and gone. The results may shock you. Remove alarms and avoid falls with new approaches.
Please visit actionpact.com/calendar/event_details/conversations_with_carmen_webinar for more information and to register.
Celebrate National Public Health Week, April 6-12. Missouri’s theme is “Public Health: Better Health. Better Missouri”.
Investing in prevention and public health can make an enormous difference. During this week, help raise awareness of the critical role that public health and prevention play in keeping individuals and communities healthy.
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has created an inspiring video about public health. To help raise awareness about public health, we encourage you to add a link (or embed) to the video on your webpage and facebook page. View the video at: http://health.mo.gov/information/nphw/index.php. Directions to embed the video on your webpage and facebook page can also be found on this link.
DHSS also created a video of public health photos. The photos were submitted by local health departments across the state. View the photos at: https://youtu.be/7og4Y-38ABk.
A toolkit for promoting National Public Health Week can be found at: http://health.mo.gov/information/nphw/. The toolkit includes social media messages, a sample proclamation, a sample news release, talking points, a promotional ecard and much more.
For each day of National Public Health Week, the American Public Health Association has developed a theme. DHSS has modified the national themes slightly to fit Missouri. Those themes are listed below, along with things you can do to develop better health habits in your home, workplace and community. To view the national daily activities go to: http://www.nphw.org/tools-and-tips/themes.
Monday, April 6: Raising the Grade. Missouri trails other states in life expectancy and other measures of good health, and this holds true across all ages and income levels. Individuals can take small steps to improve their health and communities can make a big difference by starting the conversation with leaders and community groups to make health the easier, available choice.
Tuesday, April 7: Starting from Zip. Today, your zip code says too much about your health. Across America, there are unacceptable disparities in health by race and ethnic group, state by state and even county by county. The effort to make Missouri a healthier state starts with equity across our communities.
Wednesday, April 8: Building Momentum. Influential leaders, companies and organizations are taking important steps in line with creating a healthier state, just look at recent actions by your local public health department, city/county government and community organizations.
Thursday, April 9: Building Broader Connections. In the work to become a healthier state we can’t do it all on our own. We have to expand our partnerships to collaborate with city planners, education officials, public, private and for-profit organizations, employers – everyone who has an impact on our health.
Friday, April 10: Building on 20 Years of Success. 2015 marks the 20th anniversary of National Public Health Week and the accomplishments of the public health community over the last two decades are significant, such as a 25-year improvement in the average lifespan for Americans and a 70 percent reduction in HIV/AIDS-related deaths. During this week, help raise awareness of the critical role that public health and prevention play in keeping individuals and communities healthy.
For more information, contact Lori Buchanan, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Lori.Buchanan@health.mo.gov or 573-751-6060.
April 17, 2015: Alarms: The New Deficient Practice? Eliminating and Preventing Falls by Engaging in Life
Guest: Carmen Bowman, co-author of new book with same title published by Action Pact
Special Guest Host: Glenn Blacklock, LNHA, Action Pact Consultant
Alarms – an idea whose time has come and gone. The results may shock you. Remove alarms and avoid falls with new approaches.
Please visit actionpact.com/calendar/event_details/conversations_with_carmen_webinar for more information and to register.